jvlianbashir
jvlianbashir
i love the line “you are the dreamer and the dream” so much. and i love the multiple meanings in it
benny is the dreamer of a future with black space station captains and yet his life is also sisko’s dream
sisko is the dreamer, having visions of benny and his life, but he’s also both a literal dream for benny and the fulfillment of benny’s dream for the future
you can even read meta interpretations into it with avery brooks being a vocal opponent of racial injustice (and specifically anti-blackness) through his words and his art, while also depicting a character like sisko, who is a black man in power in a (hypothetically…) post-racism world
